Re: [Jailkit-users] Sharing a home directory

[Olivier Sessink]

sorry for the late reply, I was on holidays.

Gavin Rogers wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I have a question about how to do something and a question as to the 
> security problems that doing it might pose:
>
> Is it possible to jail 2 users in the same jail and have them share the 
> same home directory? By default, jailkit requires that a user owns it's 
> own home directory:
>
> |Aug 13 12:35:00 *hostname* jk_chrootsh[6015]: path /home/*jail*/./ftproot is 
> not owned by group 520
> Aug 13 12:35:00 *hostname* jk_chrootsh[6015]: abort, path 
> /home/*jail*/./ftproot is not owned by 520
>
>
> |
>
> And obviously the home directory can only be owned by one user or the other.
>
> Even if this is easy to allow (turn off checking somehow in the config 
> files) this obviously creates some security problems, first of all 
> having an additional username and password for the clients to keep track 
> of. Is there anything else I'm missing?

users might change each others settings, such as .ssh/authorized_keys 
and files like that. Because of that jk_chrootsh does this strict 
checking. Check the archives of the list for more information.

what are you trying to accomplish?

Olivier